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Production of the hit series “Two and a Half Men” that made Charlie Sheen the highest-paid actor on television has been suspended. His longtime publicist has quit, and his famous father has compared the 45-year-old actor’s battle with drugs and alcohol to “cancer.” And yet, bunkered in his Los Angeles mansion with the two new loves of his life — a twentysomething self-described porn star and a young model he calls “the goddesses” — Sheen claims he is in complete control of his life.

In a second interview with NBC’s Jeff Rossen that aired on TODAY Tuesday, the actor insisted that the “goddesses” give him all the support he needs. “These women don’t judge me. They don’t judge me. They don’t lead with opinion. They don’t lead with their own needs all the time. They’re honest enough to tell me, ‘Hey, look, you — you know, park your nonsense. You gotta help me solve this.’ And we solve it.”

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‘Nothing broken here’
Sheen raised eyebrows — and concerns among fans and substance-abuse experts — with his claims in an interview with Rossen that aired Monday that he had kicked his highly publicized problems with drugs and alcohol by the sheer force of his own will and his declaration of war against the producers of “Two and a Half Men.” Hours later, he summoned Rossen back to the mansion to elaborate.

“Don’t be worried, don’t be worried,” Sheen told Rossen. “I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what’s wrong with that?”

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Charlie Sheen at home with his “goddesses”: Natalie Kenly (left), a model, and Rachel Oberlin (center), a self-described porn actress.

The actor said his live-in-girlfriends challenge him from time to time, but insisted that he has ultimate control of domestic decisions. “Everybody’s vote has equal importance. But when we’re approaching crisis, I remind them, ‘Look, I’m 22 years further down the road ... my plan is gonna be the best one in the room. So, just trust me on that and everybody will win. Everybody will win and everybody’s needs will be taken care of.”

But Sheen has rejected help from his father, actor Martin Sheen, and from his brothers, he says. In an interview with Sky News, Martin Sheen said, “The disease of addiction is a form of cancer, and you have to have equal measures of concern and love and lift [him] up. And so that's what we do for him.”

But Charlie Sheen says he doesn’t need his family’s help. “They tried,” Sheen told Rossen. “But I said, ‘You know, I’m not ready, I’m not interested in your rhetoric right now. I appreciate your love, your compassion, if that's what you wanna call it. But I’m 45 years old, and I’m not interested in people treating me like a 12-year-old.”

Referring to his father in terms of one of Martin Sheen’s most famous films, “Apocalypse Now,” Charlie said: “He’s gnarly, it’s Captain Willard, I mean, come on. You know, greatest film ever made. But it’s a different dialogue. You know, he’s on a different channel, and that's all right, he’s entitled.”

Sheen insists that he doesn’t need the help. He has, he said, “sort of evolved beyond it.”

Sheen also brushed off the fact that his longtime publicist, Stan Rosenfield, suddenly walked out Monday following yet another combative interview the actor gave, this time to TMZ.

“I can’t speak for him, but maybe he got overwhelmed,” Sheen said. “Maybe he felt like he wasn't respected ... I don't know ... but there’s sort of something epic about that. That it got so gnarly that Stan just went, ‘I’m out.’ That’s fine. That’s how I roll. And if it’s too gnarly for people, then buh-bye. There’s the freakin’ door, you know?”

‘Shaking the tree’
Sheen also took aim at responses to Monday’s TODAY interview, in which he described himself as a “warlock” with “tiger blood” and “Adonis DNA” — comments that made some wonder whether he was delusional, megalomaniacal or worse.

“I’m entertained as hell,” Sheen told Rossen. “I’m not saying that it’s not true, but I’m saying I’m laughing. And I’m laughing with the goddesses; I’m laughing with my friends.

“Did they expect it to be like a normal interview?” he added. “Did they expect it to be just conventional and boring and whatever else? No, man, it’s — we're shaking the tree.”

But he also said he wanted to reassure his fans: “Don’t be worried. Celebrate this movement. And I love [you] and I’m so grateful that you’ve supported me and the show for so long and I will not let you down, trust me.”

However, Sheen’s role on “Two and a Half Men” and the future of the show itself remain unclear. Production has been suspended for the remainder of the season, and Sheen told Rossen Monday that he would return only if he got a $1 million raise, boosting his salary from $2 million to $3 million per episode.

CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves is shrugging off the effect of cancelling Charlie Sheen's popular sitcom "Two and a Half Men." In fact, he says the move is saving money. Moonves told an investors conference in San Francisco on Tuesday that stopping production on the final eight episodes of this season is "financially a gainer."

He says reruns take in less advertising revenue, but not making new episodes saves CBS Corp. a lot of money, at least in the short term. Monday night's repeat was still popular — it was the top-watched show of the night.

As for Sheen's public pronouncements, Moonves said, "I wish he would have worked this hard to promote himself for an Emmy." He added, "I hope it's back. We'll see."

Producer Chuck Lorre hasn't officially responded to Sheen’s statements. But at the close of Monday night’s episode of another Chuck Lorre sitcom, “Mike and Molly,” the producer released a cryptic statement through a “vanity card” that appeared briefly in the show’s credits as well as on the show’s website.

“The following are my uncensored thoughts,” Lorre wrote. “I hope this will put an end to any further speculation ... The paradox of our culture ... celebrates the ego while simultaneously promoting its evisceration with drugs and alcohol ... The Fall from Grace is, in fact, a Sprint from Grace. Or perhaps more accurately, ‘Screw Grace, I am so outta here!’ Questions?”

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Smoking man

Sheen, left, holds a necrotic lung affected by tobacco use and a healthy lung as he talks to Dr. Oz during a taping of "The Dr. Oz Show," in New York. Sheen, who is a heavy smoker, also discussed his manic behavior and anger issues in the January 2013 episode.
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Star power

Sheen, left, speaks as former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 10, 2012 in Hollywood, Calif.
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Play ball!

Sheen acknowledges the fans before throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and the San Diego Padres at Petco Park on July 7, 2012 in San Diego.
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In the hot seat

Enter the Warlock

Sheen shows off his Detroit Tigers jersey during his performance at the Fox Theatre in Detroit on Saturday, April 2, 2011. Promising "the real story," the 45-year-old former "Two and a Half Men" star hit the road for a month-long, 20-city variety show tour, with the first stop a sold-out show in Detroit.
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The gang's all here

Sheen, second from left, is joined by Joey Scoleri of Live Nation, left, and "goddesses" Bree Olson and Natalie Kenly, right, at the after party for his Chicago tour stop at Enclave on April 3, 2011.
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Blood thirst

Charlie Sheen is seen on the rooftop of the Live Nation building drinking "Tiger Blood" in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 7, 2011. The "Two and a Half" men star was fired from the show earlier in the day by Warner Bros.
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Two for one

Sheen poses with the two women he refers to as his "goddesses" in the kitchen of his Los Angeles home during the first week of March 2011. Natalie "Natty" Kenly, left, a model, and Rachel Oberlin, aka porn star Bree Olsen, gained fame during the actor's media blitz over his fight with CBS and Warner Bros. television.
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Plenty to say

Adult film star Capri Anderson, the woman who was in Charlie Sheen's hotel room the night he allegedly trashed his suite, talks with ABC about the incident. Claiming to have feared for her life upon being locked in the bathroom, Capri said, "I'm not going to stand down and be completely be walked over." Anderson filed a harassment lawsuit, Sheen then countersued for extortion, and the case was dropped.
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Before the storm

Sheen joins his ex wife Denise Richards and their daughters Sam and Lola in a trip to the American Museum of Natural History in New York on Oct. 25, 2010. Their museum visit ended a weekend together in which the four of them went shopping at an American Girl store, dined at Serafina Broadway and took in the Broadway show Mary Poppins.

Sheen was later hospitalized after he was found drunk and naked with an alleged escort in his trashed room at The Plaza hotel. Damages to the room reportedly totaled $7,000. The actor's rep later said Sheen had had an allergic reaction to medication.
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Back to rehab

Sheen, second from right, arrives with his attorney Richard Cummins, second from left, for a sentencing hearing at the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen, Colo., on Aug. 2, 2010. Sheen was sentenced under a plea deal to get a 30-day sentence to be "administered and executed" at Promises rehab facility in Malibu, Calif., for assaulting his wife Brooke Mueller during an alcohol-fueled Christmas Day quarrel in Aspen.
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See you in a month

Sheen, right, leaves the Pitkin County Courthouse with his attorney Richard Cummins in Aspen, Colo., on Monday, June 7, 2010. A sentencing hearing for the actor in his domestic assault case against wife Brooke Mueller was continued until July 12.
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More troubles

Sheen's Mercedes was apparently stolen from his Shermon Oaks, Calif., home in early 2010. It was found overturned hundreds of feet down a nearby cliff. On June 15, 2010, police reported a second Mercedes suffered the same fate.
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Not-so-merry Christmas

Got my designs on you

Sheen has collaborated with the owner of the Rock & Roll Religion clothing line to create a line of shirts called the DaVinci Collection by Charlie Sheen. Sheen's "Two and a Half Men" character wears similar shirts.
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Viva ALMA!

Sheen, born Carlos Estevez, captured the outstanding male performance in a comedy TV series award at the 2008 ALMA Awards. The honors are given to Latino performers who promote positive portrayals of Latinos in the entertainment field. Sheen's paternal grandparents were Spanish, his maternal grandparents Irish.
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Trying marriage again

In 2008, Sheen married real-estate investor Brooke Mueller, seen here with Sheen and his daughters, Sam and Lola. The couple's twins, Bob and Max, were born on March 14, 2009. A Christmas Day fight that same year has sent Sheen's latest round of marital woes back into the tabloids.
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A 'Platoon' reunited

Actor Willem Dafoe, director Oliver Stone, an unidentified guest, Sheen and Tom Berenger reunited for a screening of their classic film "Platoon" at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in France.
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'Bounce' back

Sheen starred in "The Big Bounce," a critical flop, in 2004. Although the film was based on a novel by Elmore Leonard and features Owen Wilson and Morgan Freeman in addition to Sheen, it was a disaster, and cost $50 million to make. It earned back only $6 million.
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Men, men, men, men, manly men

Sheen and Jon Cryer play brothers with opposite temperaments in the CBS hit comedy "Two and a Half Men." Sheen reportedly earns $825,000 per episode on the show.
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Till divorce do us part

Sheen married actress Denise Richards in 2002, and they had two daughters, Sam and Lola. Richards filed for divorce in 2005, and the details of their marriage, estrangement and custody battle quickly became tabloid fodder. Richards accused Sheen of abusing drugs and alcohol, and threatening her with violence.
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Keep the Globe spinning

In 2002, Sheen won the Golden Globe Award for best performance by an actor in a television comedy or musical series for his role in "Spin City."
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Putting a 'Spin' on things

Sheen, shown with Barry Bostwick and Heather Locklear, played Charlie Crawford on "Spin City" from 2000 to 2002. As he does in "Two and a Half Men," Sheen played a character with the same first name as himself. Tony Danza Syndrome, perhaps?
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X marks the film

Sheen teamed again with brother Emilio Estevez to play real-life brothers Jim and Artie Mitchell in 2000's "Rated X." The Mitchells were pioneers in the pornography and strip-club industries in San Francisco in the 1970s and '80s.
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In court

Drug issues have troubled Sheen for years. In 1998, he appeared in a Malibu, Calif., courtroom, where a judge ruled that the actor, who nearly died of a drug overdose five months before, could be released from his rehabilitation facility.
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He'll be there for you

Geronimo!

In 1994's "Terminal Velocity," Sheen starred with Nastassja Kinski in a film about a skydiver who apparently dies on her first jump, but turns out to have faked her death.
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Family of stars

All for one, and one for all

Sheen played Aramis, one of "The Three Musketeers," in the 1993 film version of Alexandre Dumas' classic story. Kiefer Sutherland played Athos, Oliver Platt played Porthos, and Chris O'Donnell played D'Artagnan, who longs to join the trio.
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Daddy and daughter

Sheen and his daughter, Cassandra Jade Estevez, attended the 1992 premiere of "The Mighty Ducks." Sheen was just 19 when Cassandra was born.
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Brothers at work

Three strikes, yer out

Sheen, right, and Tom Berenger starred in 1989's "Major League," a comedy about a fictionalized version of the Cleveland Indians. Sheen played Ricky Vaughn, an out-of-control pitcher who improves once he gets glasses.
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Bang, bang, my baby shot me down

In 1990, before Kelly Preston wed John Travolta, she was engaged to Sheen, who gave her a 2.5 carat pink diamond engagement ring. The engagement ended shortly after he accidentally shot her in the arm, causing a wound that required stitches.
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Greed is good

Sheen starred in 1987's "Wall Street," where he plays Bud Fox, a young, ambitious trader who falls under the spell of ruthless millionaire Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas. Reportedly Sheen and director Oliver Stone parted ways after Stone approached Sheen to star in "Born on the Fourth of July," but then cast Tom Cruise without telling Sheen.
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Fighting the war outside and the war inside

In 1986's "Platoon," Sheen, center, starred with Willem Dafoe and Tom Berenger in Stone's critically lauded Vietnam War movie. The film was based on Stone's own war experiences, and is regularly listed by critics as one of the best war films ever made.
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Putting the moves on Ferris Bueller's sister

Sheen and Jennifer Grey starred in 1986's "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," with Grey playing Ferris Bueller's snotty sister Jeanie and Sheen a rebel she meets at the police station.
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